Improvement in water-wheels



UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICE.

JEssE TAYLOR, oF AUBURN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

To ZZAwz/om it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JESSE TAYLOR, of Auburn, Cayuga county, State of New York,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in WVater-Wheels, of which the follow'- ing is a full and accurate description, vreference being had to the `accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, the same letters of referencebeing used to designate like parts in' the several figures.

There is a vertical fiume A, Figures l and et, communicating at bottom with a horizontal reservoir B, covered on top, but having a cir-4 cular opening c, Fig. 4, in said cover to allow of the water rising through it into a cylindrical chamber or cistern secured on thi` top of said reservoir, as shown at c, Fig. 1. This cisternl consists of a circular bottom plate a, Figs. l and 2, secured on the top of the reservoirl by bolts n n or in any other convenient manner, and having an opening b at center of much the same size as that marked c in the top of the reservoir, over which it fits, and of a circular plate d, Fig. 1, covering the upper end of said cylindrical cistern, between which and the bottom plate d referred to a series of guides or plates are arranged, forming the circular side of said cistern, and shown at Figs. l and 2, leaving passages e e between them for directing or shooting the water upon the wheel, which revolves around this cistern, as shown at Fig. l, where the wheel is represented in place, but with a portion removed, so as to exhibit the construction of the cistern. The plates or guides referred to consist of two portions, one of which f, Figs. l and 4, is straight, its lower edge resting on the bottom plate a of the cistern and its upper edge supporting the top plate CZ of said cistern, and of a curved portion g, Figs. land Il, arranged between the top and bottom plates d and a, its upper edge being adapted to that of the upper plate CZ and its lower edge to that of the lower plate a, so as to form a portion of the circular part of the cylindrical cistern,the straight portion f of the guide being placed obliquely between the vtop and bottom plates of the cistern, forming withthe edges of said plates an angle of about fortyiive degrees and with the curved portion of the plate an angle of one hundred and thirtyve degrees, more or less.y Around this cistern so constructed the wheel revolves. It consists of a rim or hoop h, covered by a circlilar plate or head c', forming a cylinder closed above and opened below to allow of its being placed over the cistern, on the top of which it is stepped, the shaft which passes down through the center of the circular head i rest ing its lower end in a box formed on the top plate d of the cistern, as shown in Fig. l, where D is the shaft passing through the ci rcular top il of the wheel, a portion of which is removed, and lo the step on the top plate of the cistern. The buckets of the wheel are plates secured by their upper edges to the under side of the circular top t' and by their outer edges to the inside of the rim 7i. They extend from said top plate to the lower edge of the rim and consist of two partsa straight portion l and an inclined part m, Fig. S-the plate bent at its lower end before' reaching the bottom of the rim, so as to forin an angle of about one hundred and thirty degrees, more or less. The straight portion of the -bucket running from the under side of the top t' of the wheel is first acted on by the water as it passes through the openings e e of the cistern, while the inclined portion of the bucket receives the water in passing from the wheel and is acted upon by its gravity, by means of which` arrangement a double effect is produced by the operation of the water.

Another advantage is possessed by this l wheel over others nowin use. Owing to the water being confined between the top and rim of the wheel the friction of the gudgeon or the lower end of the shaft 4on its bearings will be lessened, as the water in pressing against the top ot' the wheel will tend to lift it up, lessenng by this means the weight upon the step.

Instead of stepping the shaft upon the top plate of the cistern, I sometimes make an opening in said top plate for the shaft to pass through and step it on the bottom of the reservoir.

Having set fort-h the nature and. construction of my improvement, what l claim, and

desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of a Wheel constructed as being closed to allow of its cperatng, all as aforesaid with a cylindrical Lchamber or cisdescribed. .Y

Tern arranged Within said wheel having open- 1 f ings or passages, formed in the manner de- JESSE IAYLOR' scribed for delivering the Water on t-he buck- XVitnesses:

| ets of said Wheel and supplied from a resi JOHN PL .I-IULBERT, ervoir placed below it, lche top of said cistern A; V. R. I-IULBERT. 

